RDA

Oracle Remote Diagnostics Agent (RDA) is used primarily by Oracle Support. I've found that this information is very useful and have used to debug issues in my environment. It is a useful utility to me for particular situations.

The utility ships a readme.txt file for both WIndows and Unix that will help get you started. Rather than discuss everything about RDA and analyze the output it provides, I suggest you give it a whirl. Click on this link and you can view the RDA output I generated on my laptop machine (Oracle 10.1).

Many of the most difficult Oracle problems to fix usually are due to some environmental issue or change. It was working yesterday, now it's not, what's different. I use the RDA for a comprehensive environment report. But you'll have to wait a bit, it's not exactly speedy. :-)

You can download it from MetaLink - Doc ID: 314422.1